While in Budapest to attend the performance of a group of Korean musicians, I stopped in at Dad’s office — the Budapest Opera House — for a brief tour. It

During the pandemic lockdowns, when public performances were canceled, many orchestral musicians began playing symphonies online, recorded through Zoom or something. Entire symphonies were performed this way, each performer located

See this photo of a group of friends and musical colleagues out for a walk to the sea in Holland, circa 1906. Linger over each slowly to drink in the

Here is a short, 20-second isolation of just the Viola section of the closing moments of the Third Movement of Gustav Mahler’s beyond-sublime Fifth Symphony — one of the greatest

Strapped to my bed-mat by limping infirmity, I’ve been doing a close-listening to just the middle two movements of Mahler’s Ninth. Focusing now on the third movement. Too flattened by

This is an actual and true poster for one of Gustav Mahler‘s final concert performances in the US, in Hartford, Connecticut: It’s nauseating to witness the sublime and transcendent —

People seem to think that women and men of greatness are “great” in all aspects of their personality. We hear a piano sonata or late string quartet by Beethoven, and

The following letter was sent by the great Arnold Schönberg to Gustav Mahler on the evening of the general rehearsal of Mahler’s Third Symphony, on 12 December 1904 — 117